OldNick

thats the stuff. Im getting a feeling that I might have the next generation of our Alehouse team of the 70's.It's going to warm the ****les of my heart. Come on the home team, Let's be avvin you

does every fan have their own policeman then

Yep a great saving but still a lot more than London. Went to see Mary Poppins, it was awful an aussie trying to sing in a ****ney accent. The Yanks lapped it up but we couldnt hack it and left halfway through.Over 200 wasted, i wanted to go and see the Phantom but was outvoted.

Dont worry I expect you will be a star. Granty will have all the fit ones (ooh err misses) and we have the more experienced and less fit.Afterall Granty will want to look good on the night, and so will not risk having too many runners in our team.Thank heavens I have a team full of captains who will win with endeavour and passion

600 staff? How many do other clubs employ i wonder.

Cara glass in salisbury are a good firm and you can talk to him about price. He has a good crew who work for him. he is a massive Salisbury city fan and so talk footy and that will help. Only sad thing is a lot of his mates support Pompey

Thanks hutch, all interesting and no doubt close to hitting the button

whatever you do go to Grand central station

A pleasure to read such confidence.Since saturday and the gloating from even the more reasonalbe fans has made me recall why I need to see them back where they belong.

I hope you are correct Phil.

VFTT, it is easy to say 'It's really not hard to understand.' but frankly nothing in this has been logical for quite some time. The court were issued a SOA before we played Pompey and still the company traded on and played its football with its apparent illegal players. Therefore there are things in play that are hard to comprehend. If I ran my business likewise I would have been shut down or inside. I of course do not have the media and pressure from different sides applied to the judges. Fry himself said he couldnt understand why they were not wound up the first time, so excuse me for being less confident than youi are and it is noticable 'they are toast' type quotes have lessened to quite a degree. IMHO the PL and FA self interest is a very pertinent point and also if those 2 do club together and pay the HRMC the court case does not go ahead. That would make Pompeys life much easier, and they could wriggle on the hook much longer until they can get off. I dont know the legal implications of Chanrai's moves, but if they could be seen as driminal, all of a sudden his objectives could change and so the 17m owed may not be so important as not himself being in court. As i say, there are quite a few on here who seem to know a lot more than myself on the legal stuff etc and i dare say a lot more than you.

So if somehow Pompey pay the HRMC are you saying the WUO is stll relevant

It seems to me that the fans on here are the only ones who 'get it' The PL may want them gone, but are backed into a corner and need Pompey to survive. If they pay the HRMC then they can carry on and see what happens. I have become even more disenchanted with the football world as they all wallow in the pigsty, and bend over just to service their own world. _9 points will be very hard to catch up especially if the admin sends Ohara etc back, but there does seem a reluctance to do so.

I think the first time they all were complacent, and thought it would just get a 28 day adjournment. That woke them all up to what could have happened to their precous league and cup. Now there will be some head scrathcing and a diry deal may be hatched so that they can fufill this seasons games. If they paid the HRMC would they still have to go into admin?

we mere mortals will never find out, unless it becomes a court matter.

exactly. Whether it is me totally missing the point or the fact that only this forum is missing it. The PL and FA are desperate to not let their competitions lose their integrity.Therefore it would be a disaster for the 'football family' if Pompey could not fulfill their commitments on the pitch. The answer to this is to pay the HMRC debt and so the High Court will then not carry on trying to get justice. NONE of the media have picked up on Dave Richards (Chairman of the PL) involvement in finding the Sheik and introducing him to Pompey and PS. IMO him wishing to keep his place on the PL gravy train will make him very keen that they survive, he wouldnt want to be connected to the embarrassment. I maintain that they will bale Pompey out of the next court appearance at the 11th hour as their billions of viewers in China India etc dont give a toss about the irregulrities, they want to watch the PL and FA cup being played not byes. Pompey will get out of it.

+1, him and Adrian heath cost our club a fortune. I dislike them almost to hate.Sad nearly 25 years later

Is that the case of whether they were correct in going into admin or settle the HMRC so the high court move off. I suggest that there are some despereate attempts to get the money to the HMRC at all costs so they dont have that court date and their paperwork does not need to be taken to court.

the sale and leaseback was not done.... but how could it be if Chanrai has a floating charge on it? It all gets murkier and murkier the shadow has become larger rather than diminished IMO

So can we conclude that the formality of finding the papers is not so straight forward? Or the cup run has given them a bit of breathing space?

PES you are not in a final but semi final. I have been there and seen us lose twice, not at wembley I grant you (in itself having the wsemis at wembley devalues the final) and I promise you it is really sickening.

Spades we won't knoe until bthe night how it pans out. Just that the team I managed last year has had 3 players taken of which one was chosen as motm and 2 defenders. My forward line has lost the main goalscorer Of course the players coming in may well be as good if not better,. Not a perfect scenario especially as we had a fantastic team spirit. I look forward to leading yet another great team, but always expect Phil and Granty to pull many underhand tricks to try an win .

Pes if you think losing in a cup semi is a good day out, you are going to have a bit disappointmernt if it happens to you. As for Pompeys situation from my position the FA and PL will have to bale you out in their pathetic stance to try and keep their competitions integrity. Lol I assume if they pay the HRMC all is forgotten. A rotten old world we live in. I can't believe that fans tyhink they deserve a day out,when their club is Imo dishonestly fielding players they should not , in so doing cheating fans from other teams from having that day

That is something that has worried me since he first came to the fore. For some reason he does not know how to strike the ball cleanly when he has a chance. it may be something as taking his eye off the ball for a split second. It really is somehting that is needed to be improved very quickly, if he is ever to reach the heights many think he is capable of.

Don't hold back Andy stop being diplomatic